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The Well of Moments

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The Well of Moments	comment	The Well of Moments is a comedic paranormal thriller novel by Lee Gaiteri. It is the sequel to The Affix and the second book in the Paranormal Curio series.Following her experience with the Affix three years ago, freelance "finder" Jasmine Treager stepped into the shoes of a deceased competitor and is now at the top of her game, tracking down and brokering the rarest of rare art pieces. A new job comes to her attention with the reappearance of an ancient stone pot known to the paranormal community as the Well of Moments.The pot reveals itself to have a supernatural nature, allowing a person to experience events from the past in perfect clarity, and once again dangerous collectors and rival finders are on the hunt. Making matters worse, an assassin who happens to be the brother of her former competitor thinks she had a hand in his disappearance, and wants answers.Unmarked spoilers about events in the first book may appear below.
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The Well of Moments / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: Jasmine calls Ralf Klausen "Budget Arnold" behind his back because his voice is a dead ringer for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Several other characters joke about this, including Mr. What who begs Klausen to say "I'll be back."
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The Well of Moments / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: Jasmine interrupts anyone who tries to refer to the Affix by name. From past experience she has a justified fear of waking it up. (The Affix is never mentioned by name anywhere within the actual text of the book.)
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The Well of Moments / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The "detention specials", effectively mini-grenades disguised as wadded-up chewing gum, come in handy more than once.
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The Well of Moments / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Jasmine sees herself this way. She's willing to accept the impossible when it slaps her in the face, but she refuses to give it an inch more than it takes. In contrast the paranormal community has strong, but disparate and conflicting, beliefs. She gives the Gables a partial pass because of her relationship with Seth.
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The Well of Moments / int_26a1af2f	comment	Chance Meeting Between Antagonists: The first major action point happens when three opposing groups converge on the hotel all at once—although only two of them meet. Except it's even more complicated, because future!Jasmine accidentally engages with one of the Basemen, and has a chance meeting with Toshiro, at the same hotel that same night.
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The Well of Moments / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Well of Moments / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The Mad Scot once got someone to shell a building he planned to be in at the time, just to force an opportunity to steal something he wanted. He's seen fighting Toshiro with a rapier—which typically isn't a match for a katana—and doing well, holding a lit cigarette in his lips the whole time.
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The Well of Moments / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: Played for Laughs when Lexi refers to a former collector's "piano lesson".
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The Well of Moments / int_35e4fe72	type	Fakin' MacGuffin
The Well of Moments / int_35e4fe72	comment	Fakin' MacGuffin: After casting the Well in silicone to make a mold, Ian wastes no time creating a replica for study purposes. The fake becomes a useful bargaining chip, in more ways than one.
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The Well of Moments / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Steve's call about the other thing he found in his grandfather's workshop, hidden for thirty years, is cataclysmic. Either there's more than one Affix, or the Affix is in a Stable Time Loop itself.
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The Well of Moments / int_5bf69547	comment	Gang of Hats: The Basemen, although there are only three of them. They're dressed like fans of the local college football team, but they each have a neck tattoo indicating a different baseball infield position. All of them go by code names based on their position.
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The Well of Moments / int_5e6c607d	comment	Nonviolent Initial Confrontation: Wesley Bartlett's first meeting with Jasmine is merely hostile. Their second is more of a verbal chess match. After that things get a lot worse.
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The Well of Moments / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Well of Moments / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Wesley Bartlett mainly took the job so he could get close to Jasmine and interrogate her about what happened to his brother Henry during the Affix incident. Although she doesn't want to tell him the truth, she sympathizes with him—so much so that after his Poison and Cure Gambit puts her through absolute hell, she's willing to help him when she finds out he was Hoist by His Own Petard.
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The Well of Moments / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Jasmine deliberately spread the story that Henry Bartlett snapped, killed his client's right-hand man, had an associate kill the client, and then went deep into hiding. That way she could keep the fear of him alive and exploit his absence, looking like the only person crazy enough to move in on his territory instead of leaving an obvious power vacuum. To keep it going she even did some jobs in his name.
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The Well of Moments / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Although Martin and Medina compete to be the biggest Big Bad, their respective subcontractors make a pretty good run at it too.
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The Well of Moments / int_828b231	comment	We Were Rehearsing a Play: Jasmine and Wesley use this exact excuse when their adversarial banter freaks out someone else at the restaurant. Wesley sells it by slipping into a Canadian accent, pretending he's been practicing his actual native Kiwi accent.
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The Well of Moments / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Kline Falls is a fictional city in western New York, although it's a blatant parody of a certain college town in the Finger Lakes region.
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The Well of Moments / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: 11. While it didn't come up as much of an arc number in The Affix, it shows up just about everywhere here. Every address or room number of significance is either a multiple of 11 or its digits add up to 11. Martin's penthouse is on the 11th floor. The Well of Moments and the Eye of Sorrows each have 121 (11×11) runes, and the Well has a hendecagram design on the bottom that resembles the Affix. Its prevalence proves that the Affix, while not currently awake, is still calling the shots.
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The Well of Moments / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Vijay Martin and Wesley Bartlett both. Wesley comes by it honestly, since his brother was the same way.
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The Well of Moments / int_973ba076	type	Safety in Muggles
The Well of Moments / int_973ba076	comment	Safety in Muggles: Played for laughs. After Jasmine bluffs Klausen into believing she doesn't have the Well, he insists they team up and split the profits, and she can't make him go away. Jasmine responds by loudly making a scene in the middle of the coffee house, breaking up with "Johan" for his serial cheating. Stared down by a suddenly hostile crowd, Klausen reluctantly leaves.
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The Well of Moments / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Well of Moments / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Several interactions are seen in a completely different light after all is revealed, especially Jasmine's troubles with Toshiro and Maxwell.
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The Well of Moments / int_a14c8cfe	type	Secret Legacy
The Well of Moments / int_a14c8cfe	comment	Secret Legacy: While neither of them intended for it to happen, Jasmine and her father ended up in the exact same line of work. The "coincidence" likely indicates the Affix has been a quiet background factor in larger events for far longer than anyone realized.
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The Well of Moments / int_a24bd0e9	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
The Well of Moments / int_a24bd0e9	comment	Poison and Cure Gambit: Jasmine uses this on Montrose in the opening chapter, to convince him to pay what he owes her. Later on, it's used against her in a nastier way.
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The Well of Moments / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Well of Moments / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Almost all of the returning characters, including Jasmine, played much smaller roles in the first book—in Toshiro's case, comically small. The same could be said of the ankh. Inverted for Lexi, who's demoted to appearing in only a few chapters.
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The Well of Moments / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
The Well of Moments / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Jasmine Treager is an alias that she uses for work. Her real name is Jessica. Her real last name isn't revealednote but in the first book she checked into a hospital as Jessica Talbot.
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The Well of Moments / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Well of Moments / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap! Jasmine wonders aloud why the highest bidder would meet her in a museum/gallery of appallingly tacky crap. Before she even finishes the question, she realizes they wouldn't. Everyone reacts this way to learning the Basemen are in town.
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The Well of Moments / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Well of Moments / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: The Basemen are a trio of violent finders who consider themselves hunters, and apply an honor code to their pursuit.
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The Well of Moments / int_bc848be9	type	Intangible Time Travel
The Well of Moments / int_bc848be9	comment	Intangible Time Travel: The Well of Moments' special power is to show a person scenes from the past—not necessarily their own—in complete sensory detail when they look into its depths. It can send information back as well, if the user is disciplined enough. Its companion piece, the Eye of Sorrows, sees the future. In special cases those who've used one may have a mental bond across time with someone actively using the other, such as Jasmine and her dad. Combining them is a very bad idea. Jasmine is thrown into a Stable Time Loop by both artifacts acting together.
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The Well of Moments / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Jasmine has no compunction about stepping beyond the law, and is willing to kill without hesitation when the situation demands it or there's a major wrong to avenge.
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The Well of Moments / int_bf68ac04	type	First Time Feeling
The Well of Moments / int_bf68ac04	comment	First Time Feeling: Felice was born deaf, and the cochlear implant she's had for nearly three years has limited fidelity. She's reduced to tears when she looks into the Well and experiences music with true hearing, which is her long-term goal.
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The Well of Moments / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Well of Moments / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Basemen's code names are an overt reference to the famous Who's on First? routine: Who, What, and I Don't Know. Jasmine jests that they could make her an honorary shortstop.note The shortstop in the joke is named I Don't Give a Darn; Jasmine probably intended her code name to end with a different four-letter word.
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The Well of Moments / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: Sent by the mystery texter to convince Jasmine the messages come from a friend, since no one outside her trust circle would know the inside jokes. They're from future!Jasmine, using a burner phone she accidentally brought back instead of her own.
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The Well of Moments / int_cddc1b7	type	MacGuffin Melee
The Well of Moments / int_cddc1b7	comment	MacGuffin Melee: While the number of competing parties isn't as high as it was for the Affix, it's still considerable. The Well changes hands numerous times in the confusion.
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The Well of Moments / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Well of Moments / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: During Jasmine's last confrontation with Maxwell, she interrupts to have a text conversation with someone else. When he asks who she's talking to, she tells him the truth—because he won't believe it.
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The Well of Moments / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Jasmine and Seth make it official in their showdown with Vijay Martin and three of his henchmen. Their fight with the Basemen might count too, but with Ian as a third wheel.
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The Well of Moments / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Maxwell and Jasmine are both pawns on opposite ends of a MacGuffin Delivery Service ploy laid down by future!Jasmine. Toshiro uses Klausen as an Unwitting Pawn to find Jasmine's car so he can track it, then relies on either her or Klausen getting to the Well first so he can steal it. Vijay Martin plays Xanatos Speed Chess with multiple paths that could get him the Well, also making use of Wesley Bartlett's Poison and Cure Gambit against Jasmine as another backup. Everyone else is comfortable running the Indy Ploy, although in Maxwell's case it's Strategy, Schmategy.
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The Well of Moments / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
The Well of Moments / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Commonly used by many characters, but particularly noticeable with Richter this time. Maxwell and the Mad Scot also get this treatment. Wesley Bartlett typically does not, but mainly because most people (especially Jasmine) still think of Henry as the Bartlett.
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The Well of Moments / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Jasmine has to rescue Seth after he's taken hostage.
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The Well of Moments / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag Jasmine keeps making up names for Maxwell that imply he uses a lot of steroids, despite his denials. She also takes a liking to the way Klausen says "sons of bitches" and adopts sanzabeaches as a new word, especially when dealing with the Basemen for whom it was originally coined. In a Callback to the first book, Lexi is still the butt of Ghostbusters (1984) jokes. Jasmine has assigned the movie theme as Lexi's ringtone, noting that if Lexi knew it would piss her off.
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The Well of Moments / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: After Jasmine learns it was Medina who killed her father, she embarks on Revenge and ultimately gets it. Medina has no idea of their connection until Jasmine repeats the very things her father, who saw his death coming through the Eye of Sorrows, said to Medina back then.
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